On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 03:37:54AM +0200, Mikhail V wrote: > Extended ASCII
There are over 200 different, mutually incompatible, so-called "extended ASCII" code pages and encodings. And of course it is ludicruous to think that you can fit all the world's characters into only 8-bits. There are more than 40,000 just from China alone, which makes it impossible to fit into 16-bits. > So we all must repent now and get back to 8-bit charcters. Please stop wasting everyone's time trying to set the clock back to the 1980s. -- Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
